Quotes About Perspective

But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it also feel this way to you?

It might be just some trend that came and went, I said. But for us, it's our life.

Not that anything significant started to happen immediately afterwards; but for me at least, that conversation was a turning point. I definitely started to look at everything differently. Where before I'd have backed away from awkward stuff, I began instead, more and more, to ask questions, if not out loud, at least within myself.

All right, so neither of us are exactly in our first flush of youth, but you've got to keep looking forward.' And I believe it was then that he said: 'You've got to enjoy yourself. The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it. That's how I look at it. Ask anybody, they'll all tell you. The evening's the best part of the day.

You have to accept that sometimes that's how things happen in this world. People's opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grow up at a certain point in the process.

It might be just some trend that came and went," I said. "But for us, it's our life.

I wish him the very best. All I'm saying is that there are all kinds of ways to lead a successful life.

Belki de hiçbirimiz yaÅŸad?klar?m?z? tam olarak anlam?yor ve yeterli zaman?m?z kal?p kalmad???n? hissedemiyoruz.

Ama san?r?m, gerçek ÅŸu ki, o s?ralarda bizi birbirimizden ay?rmaya çal??an güçlü gelgitler vard? ve ayr?l???n tamamlanmas? için böyle bir ÅŸeyin olmas? gerekiyordu. Bunu o s?rada anlam?? olsayd?k - kim bilir? - belki birbirimize daha s?k? sar?l?rd?k.

We may pray to different gods, yet surely yours will bless this dragon as does mine." Wistan

Make no mistake about it, my child, Marie-Claude is on your side and will always be on your side. Is she afraid of you? We're all afraid of you. I myself had to fight back my dread of you all almost every day I was at Hailsham. There were times I'd look down at you all from my study window and I'd feel such revulsion . . .

It might be just some trend that came and went,' I said. 'But for us, it's our life.

As we got older, we went on talking about the Gallery. If you wanted to praise someone's work, you'd say: "That's good enough for the Gallery." And after we discovered irony, whenever we came across any laughably bad work, we'd go: "Oh yes! Straight to the Gallery with that one!

A existat o alt? via?? pe care a? fi avut-o, dar o am pe aceasta...

Es posible que las palabras que dije aquella tarde en el templo de Tamagawa no fueran exactamente éstas, ya que he contado esa escena en otras ocasiones, y cuando una historia se repite varias veces, empieza a adquirir vida propia.

One should realize one has as good as most, perhaps better, and be grateful.

Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.

É muito fácil", acrescentei eu, "criticar quando estamos só de passagem.

If you make them tiny, and you have to because the pages are only about this big, then everything changes. It's like they come to life by themselves. Then you have to draw in all these different details for them. You have to think about how they'd protect themselves, how they'd reach things.

Tendréis que reconocer que a veces, es así como funcionan las cosas en este mundo. Las opiniones de la gente, sus sentimientos, un día van en una dirección y otro día en otra

We hadn't been ready for that. It had never occurred to us to wonder how we  would feel, being seen like that, being the spiders.

Ésa es una lección que se olvida con frecuencia: no intentes comprender, no deduzcas, no interpretes: eso lo puede hacer cualquiera en una oficina a mil kilómetros de distancia. Da igual que la situación te resulte ininteligible. Cuenta lo que ves, lo cercano, lo comprobable. Ya está.

A friend of mine's just had a baby," Niki said. "She's really pleased. I can't think why. Horrible screaming thing she's produced.

You're much the senior in years, Master Axl, but in matters of blood, it may be I'm the elder and you the youth. I've seen dark hatred as bottomless as the sea on the faces of old women and tender children, and some days felt such hatred myself.